MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Endowment for Climate Intelligence (ECI) is excited to announce the release of ClimateGPT, the first open source ensemble of AI models dedicated to addressing the fast-moving impact of climate change. ClimateGPT seeks to drive resilient climate action for researchers, policymakers, and business leaders, to make informed decisions in this climate of uncertainty.
The breakthrough underscores the ECI’s commitment to the open science and open source AI communities, heralding a significant step toward responsible AI development. The model benchmarks scores show a 10x the efficiency on climate-specific tasks and novel cascading machine translation that recovers nearly 94% of fluency performance compared to native multilingual language models. The result archives an equitable and audited AI model that is extensively fine-tuned by humans with diverse forms of expert and local stakeholder perspectives.
After over four years of research, testing, building, and fine-tuning more than 100 Large Language Models, Erasmus.AI developed the corpus of ClimateGPT from its planetary scale corpora — one of the world’s largest web and academic collections, with research and insights on climate, extreme weather, the Club of Rome’s Earth4All, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Erasmus corpus is drawn from over 10 billion web pages and millions of open-access academic articles. ClimateGPT is trained to synthesize interdisciplinary research and break silos to form a holistic understanding of the impacts of climate change across the natural, social and economic sciences.
In collaboration with AppTek’s AI and language research scientists, the model was trained with a new climate-specific instruction fine-tuning (IFT) dataset and benchmark that allows users to access knowledge across scientific disciplines in over 20 languages. EQTY Lab worked closely with Further Ventures to architect the ClimateGPT platform to leverage a new advanced cryptographic framework that authenticates, secures, and governs responsible AI models.
The ECI launched the initial node of ClimateGPT during COP28 at Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra Solar PV, a 2-gigawatt facility and the world’s largest single-site solar plant. Access to the model expanded today to Microsoft’s green energy data centers worldwide. The ECI trained ClimateGPT on an array of 256 Nvidia H100s, the most-energy efficient cloud GPUs, and powered by hydroelectric energy in Puyallup, Washington.
Using a groundbreaking Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI platform, enterprises can harness the open source model and apply it to real-time and proprietary datasets. Integrations into Salesforce and Databricks provide rapid deployment and fine-tuning of the model. At the UN COP28 Conference, the first corporate entities announced their deployment of the platform, including TAQA, Etihad Rail, and ADNEC Group. The renewable energy company Masdar is also among the first adopters of the model.
To ensure proper transparency and governance, the ClimateGPT leverages a new, advanced, trusted AI solution from EQTY Lab that registers the entire AI lifecycle on the Hedera enterprise-grade blockchain and preserves the model data on Protocol Lab’s IPFS and the Filecoin protocols. Responsible AI pilots have been initiated with experts from the open source, trust and safety, climate mis/disinformation communities to establish proper guardrails for the model’s deployment.
The need for a new generation of responsible and sustainable AI strategies to address global challenges has never been greater. ClimateGPT drives action-oriented innovation by contributing to open source research and providing enterprise-ready solutions. With this launch, we are excited to be sharing a vision for how diverse, mission-driven stakeholders can come together to introduce new public AI utilities. Our future is a shared one and we look forward to furthering collective climate intelligence. – Ariana Fowler, Head of Research, EQTY Lab
The Endowment for Climate Intelligence (ECI) believes Artificial Intelligence can be developed and maintained responsibly by humans. The ECI brings together stakeholders in AI and climate research alongside members from enterprise and civil society to use new governance methods and regenerative economics to strengthen planetary knowledge. As a not-for-profit endowment, recurring revenue from any commercial use of the model is reinvested to allow the ECI to subsidize access free of charge to qualified researchers and make future investments to evolve the model going forward. – ECI spokesperson
ClimateGPT represents a significant milestone in the fight against climate change by providing researchers, policymakers, and business leaders with an advanced AI model trained on extensive interdisciplinary research. The model, developed by Erasmus.AI, draws from a vast corpus of planetary scale corpora, encompassing climate research, extreme weather analysis, and UN Sustainable Development Goals.
AppTek’s AI and language research scientists collaborated with Erasmus.AI to train the model using a new climate-specific instruction fine-tuning (IFT) dataset and benchmark. This allows users to access knowledge in over 20 languages across multiple scientific disciplines. Further Ventures and EQTY Lab played crucial roles in developing the ClimateGPT platform, ensuring advanced cryptographic techniques for security, authentication, and responsible AI governance.
The Endowment for Climate Intelligence launched the initial node of ClimateGPT at Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra Solar PV, the world’s largest single-site solar plant. The model is now available at Microsoft’s green energy data centers globally. By leveraging Nvidia H100s cloud GPUs and hydroelectric energy, the ECI demonstrates its commitment to sustainable and efficient computing practices.
Enterprise users can utilize ClimateGPT through the groundbreaking Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI platform. This allows real-time application of the open-source model to proprietary datasets. Integrations with Salesforce and Databricks facilitate rapid deployment and fine-tuning. Several corporate entities, including TAQA, Etihad Rail, and ADNEC Group, have already announced their adoption of the platform.
Transparency and governance are prioritized through the implementation of advanced AI solutions. EQTY Lab ensures complete transparency and accountability by registering the entire AI lifecycle on the Hedera enterprise-grade blockchain. The model data is securely preserved using Protocol Lab’s IPFS and Filecoin protocols. Responsible AI pilots have been initiated, engaging experts to establish appropriate guidelines for the deployment of the model.
With ClimateGPT, stakeholders are provided with a powerful tool to tackle the challenges posed by climate change. By combining groundbreaking AI technology, extensive research, and responsible governance, ClimateGPT aims to empower decision-makers with valuable insights for informed action.
As the world faces an urgent need to address climate change, the introduction of ClimateGPT represents a significant step forward in leveraging AI technology for the greater good. Collaborative efforts between researchers, policymakers, and business leaders have culminated in an open-source AI platform dedicated to understanding and combating the impact of climate change. ClimateGPT’s comprehensive training and advanced features make it an invaluable tool in the pursuit of a sustainable future.
